From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 09:57:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA78C37B401 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:57:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C138543FAF for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h4MGvguQ093978; Thu, 22 May 2003 11:57:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:57:42 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt" Message-ID: <20030522165741.GB1694@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000e01c3207b$2e02d670$140a0aac@avlaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000e01c3207b$2e02d670$140a0aac@avlaptop> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-BETA X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAM in a Compaq 2500. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 16:57:44 -0000 In the last episode (May 22), Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt said: > I have a Compaq 2500 with 256MB of RAM installed. I have > removed the Win2K server installed and replaced it with FreeBSD > 4.8-RELEASE. According to sysctl I seem to only have 12MB of RAM > (hw.physmem: 12099584). Win2K was seeing all 256MB until it was > replaced. Any suggestions as to where to check for the disconnect? > Thanks in advance. Compaq's don't return the right values to the BIOS memory calls, so you have to override the results. Try adding this to /boot/loader.conf: hw.physmem="256M" -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com